Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Speeders

Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by barrkel on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:41PM (#6072047)

The local government (or whoever collects fines) would make a lot of money, behaviour would change, and possibly, just possibly, speed limits would rise.

But the increase in revenue raised would make it too tempting not to use, IMO.

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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by freehunter on Friday July 19, 2013 @02:57PM (#6072168)

The speed of drivers would go down and normalize at maximum 65mph. This falls in line with the idea of a speed limit (not a speed suggestion).

I fail to see how this is a bad thing.

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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by barrkel on Saturday July 20, 2013 @08:34AM (#6075022)

You have a failure of imagination, then. Many times an ill-advised overtake started out below the speed limit but needs to go a bit over to be made safe, and that's not just my opinion, but that of many traffic police officers over here in the UK.

And think about what a low speed limit like 65mph would do to the economy.

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Re:Fake Signs On Bay Area Highways Say Drones Looking For Sp... by freehunter on Saturday July 20, 2013 @10:37AM (#6075338)

Then businesses would clamor to have the speed limit raised, huh? Here in Michigan, we were taught in drivers training that passing another car can only be done legally at a speed differential greater than 5mph and only if you stay within the speed limit. Such as, if the car in front of you was driving 50 and the speed limit was 55. You could pass at 55.

A lot of the discussions I hear on this fall down to "it's inconvenient to drive the speed limit". Man that sucks, but the speed limit is kind of a legal limit.

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